, the economy, the economy was about to bust out and washington snuffed it. we had it in hand. we had a turn in housing with home builders, and we had to turn to booming orders from boeing. and banks were getting their balance sheets growing again, and oil and gas industry started booming and opportunities for new petrochemicals hiring tens of thousands of people. autos were the strongest in years. people, it was all coming together. and now washington's crushing it. best of all, people are starting to get hired again. all those industries just mentioned were growing, all of them looked like a real good year to expand. business people are in retreat, and their leaders, many of whom speak to me, are done hiring. and they want to fire, cut back, show they saw the chaos from capital coming and did the right thing for shareholders, when the right thing not that long ago was to hire, not fire. washington with its sickening inability to compromise wrecked it, wrecked it all, and took what was developing into a beautiful bull market, led by real profits, real hiring and turned it on its head, maybe
